Sentences with phrase «at a literary agency»

After all, that's the only thing any talented author needs — the right person at a literary agency and publishing house to actually read their work.

So always make sure you look at a literary agency's website before submitting anything.

Get instant access to the contact information for each of the literary agents working at these literary agencies.

If you use postcards, make it easy for the staff at the literary agency to reply.

Whenever someone at a literary agency says something complimentary about you and / or your work in their literary agent feedback... take that to heart.

A literary agent online submission requires you to enter all your information at the literary agency's website.

Fleck has also interned at a literary agency and worked as a university teaching assistant.

Before starting her own agency, Ms. Unter worked in many aspects of the publishing industry: in editorial at a publishing house; as a copyright lawyer at an entertainment law firm; and as VP at a literary agency.

There are only 3 ways to submit your book to a literary agency: email, postal mail, and an online form at the literary agency's website (if they have one).

When Trident Media Group's company controllers were conferring about starting an e-book marketplace at the literary agency, one point quickly emerged as a guiding principle.

Even if the «top literary agent» at a literary agency wants to represent you (and scores high marks in the areas listed above) there's still one more thing to consider... and it's just as important as all of the other criteria combined.

I was the first agent (way back in the 1990s) that instituted an «Email Query Only» policy at my literary agency.

There are no work requirements for a book agent, but most agents have had at least one job in the publishing industry before setting out to open their own literary agency (or get a job at a literary agency).

How many of us tried to be published back in the dark ages of our youth or young adulthood and got discouraged because we couldn't get a foot through the door at an literary agency or we kept getting form rejections from publishers that we knew never took time to read so much as the first chapter of our work?

Anna began her publishing career in Paris, working as an assistant at the literary agency Agence Michelle Lapautre and as a junior editor at Editions Plon.

You'll need to submit a 1 - 2 page pitch letter (query letter) to an individual agent at a literary agency.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

Including the book genre can help the person reading your email to route it to the correct person at the literary agency — if the person reading is an assistant or not a good fit.

And per our focus this week at Publishing Perspectives, we also are looking at literary agencies and their company practices; at experiments in new models; and at observations and reactions to those experiments.